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Take Back The Land – Dr. Vandana Shiva

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I always tell people Dr. Vandana Shiva is the Martin Luther King Jr. of our time. Fighting for the freedom and justice of Mother Earth. It’s important to consider just how important the land is to us all, if we’re ever going to be ready to embrace that desired harmony with nature; we’re going to require …

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Going to the Edge by Going Within: Xerxes Whitney at TEDxSonomaCounty

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Xerxes Whitney thought the more he achieved, the more his cerebral palsy (CP) would fade away and people would see who he truly was. Whitney describes his journey of acceptance and embracing himself. About TEDx, x = independently organized event In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience.

Richard

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Richard is the fascinating story of a travelling piano tuner who chooses to live outdoors. Shot in London, the film takes an alternative look at someone who treats the entire city as a home. Richard is part of the film series England Your England.

TAKE BACK THE LAND

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Environmental activist Vandana Shiva speaks about the crises of today and the two most important things we can and must do to solve them. This video was edited by Steve Agnos with editorial assistance from Chris Agnos, the brothers behind Sustainable Man.

X Picks Up A Lufa Basket

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Valhalla Co-Founder X decides he to pay a visit to the Lufa Farms website in search of organic food. he makes a purchase for a 30$ basket and is told to pick it up at the pick up point.

Fixin’ Earthship Mistakes

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Buildin’ Ain’t Easy, We all make mistakes no matter how small :P Valhalla wants to help the perfection of sustainable development, get the ebook and dvd how to build an earthship inspired greenhouse here: http://goo.gl/0x794r

Bunker Roy: Learning from a barefoot movement

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http://www.ted.com In Rajasthan, India, an extraordinary school teaches rural women and men — many of them illiterate — to become solar engineers, artisans, dentists and doctors in their own villages. It’s called the Barefoot College, and its founder, Bunker Roy, explains how it works.

From the Netherlands to America

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More than ever, American cities are casting their gazes across the Atlantic for fresh ideas and inspiration when it comes to making bicycling safer, more convenient and more practical for everyday short trips. No place in the world has more experience with bicycle transportation than the Netherlands, where more than a quarter of every trip made is on two wheels.

Pallet Funiture Garden Set

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Working is one thing, sitting is another. We decide we had enough, we accumulated far too much scrap wood, and not nearly enough furniture. So we got to work. Let us know what you think? Have you ever built something out of pallets?

Practical Permaculture Workshop Series

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This summer P3 Permaculture Design and Valhalla are collaborating to bring you some practical techniques in permaculture that you can build at home, on your balcony and back yards. These topics are intermediate level so there is details available that we would not cover in an introduction to these topics.

5W – Emmett Brennan

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Valhalla visits Emmett Brennan to ask questions about Emmett’s and Costa Boutsikaris’ new film Inhabit. Inhabit is a feature length documentary introducing permaculture. It presents a vast array of projects, concepts, and people, and it translates the diversity of permaculture into something that can be understood by an equally diverse audience.

Grocery Store Wars (2005)

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Not long ago in a supermarket not so far away. Help fight the dark side of the farm. Rate the film, favorite the film, comment the film and subscribe to our channel for the freshest Free Range films.

Fracking

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David Letterman gives us his take in fracking. Posted by Grant MacLaren. Perhaps you’ve notice the similarities between Tobacco advertising and that of the Natural Gas Industry. Years ago the tobacco industry vehemently denied any connection between smoking and health issues.

Devastation and Prayer at the Last Tar Sands Healing Walk

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At the fifth and final Tar Sands Healing Walk, indigenous communities on the front-lines of tar sands extraction lead a spiritual march through a landscape of poisonous lakes, dead earth, open-pit mines, and refineries. More thoughts on this in my write-up via VICE: http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/inside-the-tar-sands-last-healing-walk-519

Being A Channel For Good

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Think about this; As people – who live among many other people – we engage countless times in social transactions which we usually consider insignificant and perhaps avoidable. But what if, when you left your home in the morning, you realize a different meaning toward those engagements. You realize that perhaps you can be more …

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Toby Hemenway – Food Forest Design & Care for Cites & Suburbs – a permaculture course

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Click here for the full course by Toby Hemenway: http://organiclifeguru.com/course/food-forest-design-care-for-cites-and-suburbs/ Toby Hemenway shows what food forest design is and how to understand and apply permaculture principles. The full course is available at http://organiclifeguru.com Food forests, or edible forest gardens, are life-filled places that not only provide substantial food for people, but habitat for wildlife, carbon sequestering, biodiversity, natural soil building, beauty and tranquility, and a host of other benefits.

Should Valhalla Grow Hemp?

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Valhalla is a sustainable farm 15 minutes from downtown montreal, quebec canada; the big question is; should we grow hemp? Let us know by liking this video, we appreciate the support. be sure to like Orvert’s facebook page :D https://www.facebook.com/groupeorvert

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